Frankly, I would much prefer remembering Darwin visiting the London zoo where he presented the orangutan with a mirror and watched her reactions with wonder and admiration. Biology is, after all, a lot more than collecting specimens.

In his day, Darwin was an avid collector and naturalist. I don’t have figures for his collections on the Beagle, but he would have been expected to come back with a lot. Stuffed, skinned, preserved in formalin (IIRC there was an event in the Argentina / Falklands leg of the voyage where the sailors dropped and broke a lot of his supply of formalin, to his considerable and vocal annoyance).O tempora, o mores! He lived in a different time and place, with different “mores” (same root as “morals” in English).

“Taxidered” is the formulation my dad used, but I think he made it up. He wanted to take it up as a hobby when he retired, but hasn’t found time.
There’s still a badger and a couple of owls in the freezer, awaiting “time” though. (All road kill, or other incidental deaths.)